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John McEnroe's Davis Cup team apparently has the knack that he had for living on the edge. For the second straight match in two months, McEnroe's first two as captain, the United States is going into the reverse singles needing to win them both...

April 9, 2000, Sunday

Jared Palmer and Alex O'Brien, former teammates at Stanford, were picked yesterday as the doubles team for the United States' Davis Cup quarterfinal against the Czech Republic. Palmer and O'Brien will join Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, who were...

March 29, 2000, Wednesday

When Pete Sampras raised his racquet to serve for the doubles victory that saved the United States Davis Cup team from elimination by Australia today, the on-court thermometer had already boiled over at 129 degrees. The radar gun had short-circuited,...

July 18, 1999, Sunday

DAVIS CUP Tom Gullikson, the United States Davis Cup captain, has his team. Now all he has to do is figure out the lineup. Gullikson picked Alex O'Brien yesterday to complete a roster that includes Pete Sampras, Jim Courier and Todd Martin....

July 6, 1999, Tuesday

Tim and Greg. Greg and Tim. They are the reason tennis is a year-round topic again in Britain, and the reason the seating capacity of the National Indoor Arena had to be expanded twice to meet ticket demand for a first-round Davis Cup encounter with...

April 4, 1999, Sunday

WITH a new promoter and 10 of the top 25 ranked men's players, the Pilot Pen International tennis tournament begins its eighth run in New Haven tomorrow at the Connecticut Tennis Center near the Yale Bowl. Fifty-six players, including the...

August 10, 1997, Sunday

Brazilian tennis fans traded in their samba drums for loud plastic trumpets that blared like quiz-show buzzers for every American mistake, of which there were many, in the Davis Cup doubles match today. Playing in temperatures that reached 100...

February 9, 1997, Sunday

MaliVai Washington, this year's Wimbledon runner-up, and Marcelo Rios, the ponytailed 20-year-old firebrand who is Chile's first-ever top 10 player, found themselves rudely thumped out of the second round of the United States Open last night by a...

August 30, 1996, Friday

Pam Shriver of Baltimore and Alex O'Brien of Amarillo, Tex., were among 16 players awarded wild-card entry into the 1996 United States Open, which begins Monday. O'Brien, the 1992 National Collegiate Athletic Association singles and doubles...

August 20, 1996, Tuesday

The early 1990's were heady times for Alex O'Brien. A four-time all-American at Stanford, he became the only player ever to pull off the collegiate tennis hat trick when, during his senior year in 1992, he won the singles and doubles titles in the...